Argument ends in attack with guitar, steel-toed boots

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A 40-year-old homeless man was beaten early Thursday in San Francisco’s South of Market district by a man and a woman who reportedly attacked him with a guitar and steel-toed boots, police said.

The victim and the two alleged attackers, both also transients, got into an argument around 5:30 a.m. while hanging out drinking at the intersection of Brady and Stevenson streets, said police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy.

The man, 29-year-old Ian Carrier, allegedly hit the victim on the head with a guitar, Shyy said, though he couldn’t specify what type of guitar.

After the victim fell to the ground, the woman, 24-year-old Shana Miller, began kicking him in the head with steel-toed boots, police said.

The victim suffered non-life threatening cuts on his face and hands and was taken to a local hospital. Carrier and Miller were both arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Shyy said.